FROM LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

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FROM " LIFE OF SRI SHIRDI SAI BABA " BY NARASIMHA SWAMI

 

……“In another case, that of Bhimaji, who had serious chest disease,

asthma, tuberculosis, etc., Baba first told Shama, ‘Shama, in bringing this

thief to me what a load of responsibility you are placing on me!’ Baba meant

that the tuberculosis, asthma, etc., from which Bhimaji suffered were the result

of Bhiinaji’s karma in a previous janma consisting of theft. Bhimaji felt

Baba’s declaration a blow. At once he surrendered himself to Baba and said,

‘Helper of the helpless! I am helpless. Pray show thy pity and grace to me’.

Then Baba’s tone changed. Baba told him, ‘The Fakir (God) is merciful, and

your disease will be cured’. He was suffering from the results of karma, but

that could be mitigated, and so the man was sent to live and sleep in a wet

verandah. Bhimaji did so. There, he had two very dreadful dreams. In one dream,

he was mercilessly birched by a school master. For, in the dream he fancied he

was a boy and the master was

birching him. So, he felt the pain in the dream and he roared out. In the

second dream, it was even worse. He felt that some one was placing a stone

roller and rolling it over his breast. He suffered all the horror of instant

death approaching him. All the pain of a hanging sentence and whipping sentence

were endured by this man in the course of one night. Baba thus changed the

punishments, which he had earned by his previous karma, and told him that he was

thus free from karmic effects. He then recovered his health. The above instances

go to show that most of our conceptions about karma are nebulous and ungrounded,

and that the safest course for us to follow would be to be guided by the dicta

of Satpurushas like Sai Baba.â€â€¦â€¦